Pencil holder



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PENCIL HOLDER Filed Feb. 5, 1930 fnven i or.

Z/L P/M IA/06791114 Patented May 19, 1931 PATENT OFFICE ZILPHA LINDERM'AN, OF SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA PENCIL HOLDER Application filed. February 3, 1930.

This invention relates to improvements in pencil holders.

The principal object is to provide a pencil holder adapted to be attached to a persons garment.

Another object is to produce a device which will accommodate any standard size of penoils.

A further object is to produce a device which is economical to manufacture and simple in construction.

A still further object is to provide means whereby a device may be also attached to other objects such as the cloth of a card table or other soft portions thereof.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device,

Figure 2 is a side elevation similar to Figure 1 and taken at an angle of 90 to Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a vertical cross section of Figure 1 with the pin omitted,

Figure 4 is a side elevation of a modified form of my device, and

Figure 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of the device disclosing another form of fastening means different from this shown in Figure 4.

It is well known that children invariably drop or lose their pencils. In the present device I have endeavored to overcome this annoyance and inconvenience and eliminate the loss of the pencils by producing a device that can be readily secured to a childs garment and which will hold therein, against displacement, the referred to pencil. While I have specified that the device is primarily used by children, it is nevertheless understood that the use of the same may also be enjoyed by adults.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates a tubular member pro- Serial No. 425,598.

vided at each end with a bead as shown at 6 and 7. A fastening element 8 is secured to the tubular element 5 and in Figure 1 I have shown this fastening element as a brooch pin, while in Figure 4 I have shown the fastening element in the form of a screw. WVithin the tubular element 5 is a spring 9, the upper convolution 11 of which is larger than the main body of the spring and therefore rests in the bead 6. The lower convolution 12 is similarly formed and also rests in the bead 7. It will be noted that the central portion of the spring is offset with respect to the exis of the tubular member.

By viewing Figure 3 it will be noted that the spring is curved throughout its length so that the middle portion is offset from the ends, the result being that when a pencil 13 is positioned through the spring the convolutions thereof will engage the side of the pencil and retain the same against slippage.

In the modified forms as shown in Figures 4: and 5 the tubular element 5 is split as shown at 14: and 16 thus allowing the tubular element to be contracted and expanded through the action of the pencil entering or leaving the tubular member. In Figure 4 the fastening element 8 is preferably secured to the tubular member by winding a portion thereof about the tubular member as illustrated, while the fastening means shown in Figure 5 is similar to a brooch. In these modified forms the pencil enters the tubular members only part way and does not pass therethrough.

The result of this construction is that the same may be readily attached to the clothes and the pencil can be inserted therein in an easy manner and the spring forms such a flexible grip that the user will not tear the clothes in placing the pencil within the holder or when withdrawing it in counter-distinction to pencil holders which have a very positive gripping action. In the modified form shown, the screw element 8 thereof may be brought into engagement with the top or sides of a card table or may be fastened to a wall or like surface that will be firmly held in a convenient position to receive therein the pencil.

I' It is to be understood that the forms of my invention herewith shown and described are to'be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to thematerial, size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the-inventionor the scope of the subj oined Claims.

Having thus described my invention lis claim 1. In a pencil h l dr'p a' thbfilarineniber having. beads formed on the ends thereoflv-a f 7 spring positioned Within said tubular mem- V by said tubular member.

' asp'ring positioned within'said tubular memtubular member, and fastening means car{ her with the top and bottomeonvolutions of said spring carriedinthe beads of said tubu-' lar member; and a fastening element carried 2'. In apencil holder, a tubular member,

ber, said spring having its top and bottom convolutionssecur ed to the opposite ends of said tubular memberrand having its center portion offset with respectto the axis of the ried bysaid'tubular member.

' In testimony whereofl affix my signature.

' ZILPHA LINDERMAN.

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